If you have some negative ideas around the subject of money, and most people do, we’re going to shine the light of awareness on it, so you can change it! You can’t change something if you don’t even know it exists! So shining a light on your deepest feelings about money is a good first step.

This is an exercise to help you get more clarity about how you think about money. Be honest with your answers and write anything positive/negative which may be in your mind. The more fully you answer these questions, (and the more honestly), the more you will discover about the potential hidden “blockers” to money in your inner mind:

• Money is….
• Wealth is….
• Rich people are…
• The reasons I can’t or may not be extremely wealthy are…
• Some of the possible negatives about being rich, or going through the process of trying to get rich are…
• My greatest worries and fears regarding money and wealth are…
• The worst thing about money is…
• My reasons why I don’t want to be rich are…
• Poor people are…..

There’s more questions in my article money mindset pdf too. Go through the article and write out all your answers being as honest as you can.

Money Mentality Makeover – Changing Your Mind

Write out the following on a piece of paper and answer as fully as you can:

• What did you hear around money, wealth and rich people as a child (from your parents, family, society etc.)?
• What are 3 unsupportive beliefs you have or have had around money, success and being rich?
• Write a positive or more empowering belief for each of the above.

The thoughts you carry about yourself, money and becoming more wealthy are likely offering you some resistance to increasing money in your life. If you harbour negative ideas in your consciousness, you’re going to attract situations, circumstances and events which are a match for those beliefs/ideas. Wouldn’t it be a better idea to offer up new beliefs which are more supportive of your ideal outcome of making more money?

“…the key to success and the key to failure is this: WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT” – Earl Nightingale The Strangest Secret

By choosing our thinking more deliberately, we can “feed” our subconscious mind with thoughts of wealth and plenty.

Money Mentality Makeover: A Meditation

The trouble is, we think the way we have always done habitually for many years. So thinking becomes an unconscious habit. You can’t very well change that if you’re totally unaware of it! So the first step towards your money mentality makeover is to become conscious of the thoughts you habitually give energy to.

This can take some inner work and we’re going to cover that here.

Sit comfortably in a place you won’t be disturbed. Close your eyes and pay attention to your breath. Watch the breath as your body raises and falls with each in and out breath. Count from 1 to 5 with each full breath and then start again at 1. As you continue with this practice for several minutes, you will notice your mind interjecting. The “chatter” of your mind can almost bring the practice to a stop. But be patient and simply watch the mind, without entering into any discussion with it.

Make this a daily practice by starting with just 5 minutes. As you persevere you will start to see that the chatter of the mind doesn’t stop. Extend the time each day until you are meditating for 20 minutes at a time for each sitting. Each time you notice the mind chatter, bring your awareness back to your breath and counting from 1-5 again.

Stalking The Mind: Yaqui Indian Style

This stalking technique comes from the books of Carlos Castaneda. You can find it in this book, the teachings of Don Carlos:

This technique can help you identify your thoughts and actions which you perpetuate and helps you become more conscious of both. Take a timer, and set it to go off at intervals throughout the day. Make them arbitrary, so you won’t guess when the timer is about to go off. So not on a hourly interval, because you could easily guess when it would go off. The idea is for the timer to catch you off guard.

Keep a pen and paper handy and when the timer goes off, write down these three things:

• What were you thinking?
• What were you doing?
• Do you want this?

The benefit of this exercise is to give you clarity on your thinking and “doing” processes, which are often unconscious. By shining a light of your awareness on these two important aspects of your life, you can gain much clarity on the ideas you perpetuate through your thoughts and actions.

By answering the third question each time the timer goes off, you can become clear on whether these are the thoughts and actions which are taking you where (you say) you want to go in life.

Summary

“The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice” – Shad Helmstetter, What You Say When You Talk To Yourself

So why not talk success, wealth and happiness into your life? The reason is that your habitual thinking patterns are well worn in. They are like grooves in your mind which have deepened over the years. To change your engrained thinking patterns isn’t an easy feat. After all, your whole life is a reminder that your thoughts were real, because your life represents the reality you have created.

Your friends are mirrors who reflect your beliefs back to you:

Jim Rohn “You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with”

To make change you need to get conscious about the ideas you give energy to. Start by observing and uncovering your limiting beliefs around the subject of money. Notice those around you, your friends and relatives, and how they talk about money. Is it all positive? Most likely not. Most likely there is some charge on the subject and some negativity and limitation.

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Money Mindset Exercises: Words Have Power

Your words have power.

John 1:14 is one of the most important verses in the Bible. It reads: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us”.

As you talk about yourself, your struggles and your lack of money, for example, you are literally talking it away from you, giving more energy to lack and limitation.

Before you can change this, you need to become aware of how you talk about money, the rich and how you see yourself. All of these have a bearing on your self image and your ability to make and keep money. So the first exercise is to bring awareness to your habitual talking patterns regarding money.

Who you spend time with and the things you say are equally important because you are likely to share similar ideas with those you surround yourself with. Jim Rohn “You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with”.

Exercise: take a notepad and pen and for a full week make a note of anything negative you might say regarding money, lack, limitation or the rich. Don’t judge, just observe. Observe yourself in conversation with others, and also what they say about money too.

Money Mindset Exercises: Being The Watcher Of Your Thinking

Napoleon Hill says in his book Think and Grow Rich “thoughts become things” and it’s a common thread throughout many modern day and classic books on money mindset and the law of attraction.

Your thinking lays the ground work of all the actions you take in life. You simply won’t work towards something if you don’t believe in it! So the next exercise is to take some stock of the thoughts you give energy to. In particular, you want to pay attention to the thoughts with an emotional charge. These are particularly powerful and the subject of money is often one which often has such a strong emotional ingredient, particularly if you struggle with it.

Exercise: Sit comfortably somewhere quiet and relax your body. Close your eyes and pay attention to your breathing. Just notice your in-breath and your out-breath, counting to 5 for each cycle. As you do this, you will notice your mind tries to take your attention away from your counting, and the focus on your breath. Just observe without judgement and bring your attention back to your breathing.

Start with a 5 minute exercise each day and build up the length of practice each day. You will notice your thinking mind more and more. Observe thoughts which are the most powerful for you, controlling your emotions and directing your life. Meditation is a powerful tool to uncover your thinking processes. The more you practice the more conscious awareness you will bring into your habitual thinking patterns.

Money Mindset Exercises: Q&A

It’s useful to understand how you think about money, wealth, the “rich” and yourself. If you harbour negative thinking towards the wealthy, money, or even yourself, you can be assured that it holds you from attaining more wealth and prosperity. Here’s a few questions you can answer which will shine a light on your inner beliefs on this topic:

Exercise: go through these questions answering honestly about your thoughts on each one. Don’t judge yourself and mark yourself from 1-10 according to your answers: Print out the money mindset pdf and write out your answers to all the questions.

1 = disagree 100%, 10 = agree 100% .

• Money is the route of all evil
• It is more enlightened to be poor than rich
• Rich people earn their money dishonestly
• Having a lot of money will make me less spiritual or pure
• Getting rich takes too much money and struggle
• Having a lot of money is a big responsibility
• I don’t feel good enough to be rich
• Realistically, chances are I’ll never be rich
• I’m striving for wealth but it doesn’t allow much time for anything
• If I get rich, everyone will want something from me

• If I get rich there are certain people in my life who wouldn’t like me
• If I have a lot of money it means someone else will have less
• Having excess money means you are greedy
• I’m not very good in the area of money and finances

The higher your score on this, the more work you have to do on changing your money mindset to attract abundance.

Your Reasons For Making Money

What are your reasons for wanting more money? Is it to get out of debt, to have more things or to serve humanity better? To enjoy life more or to live more fully? Whatever your reasons, if you are only focusing on the negative reasons to have money you may be giving more energy to debt than to money!

If you harbour negative connotations about money, you may be keeping yourself from it. If you “hate the rich” for example, this isn’t a good match if you want more money. You will unconsciously keep yourself poor so you don’t fall into the category of being rich.

Exercise: Spend some time journaling out all the reasons it will serve the world for your to become rich, what it will allow you to do, who you will be able to help and so on.

• Why does it serve the world for me to become rich?

If you’re unclear on this, there could be some internal resistance to your continued success if you carry conflicting ideas on this topic.

If you’re struggling with this exercise, think about who you could help once you’re more financially secure and abundant. What would you do if money didn’t matter? Money can give you more choice and freedom to do the things that are important to you. What would you do if you had an abundance of money and no money worries?

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